Apparatus for locating securing parts of separable fasteners to carrying fabrics



Apfil 7, 1925. 1,532,376

CARR APPARATUS FOR LOCATING SECURING PARTS OF SEPARABLE FASTENERS TOCARRYING FABRICS Filed Jan. 16, 1926 lii/vewio 2- Bed .5. (Yawn PatentedApr. 7, 1925.

UNITED STATES 1,532,376 PATENT OFFICE.

FRED S. CARR, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO CARR FASTENER COM-PANY, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF IIIAINE.

APPARATUS FOR LOCATING SECURING lARTS OF SEPARABLE FASTENERS TO CARRY-ING FABRICS.

Application filed January 16, 1920. Serial No. 351,781.

To all whom it may concern! Be it known that I, FRED S. CARR, a citizenof the United States, and resident of Newton, in the county of Middlesexand Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement inApparatus for Locating locating securing'parts of separable fasteners tocarrying fabrics.

It is among the objects of the invention to provide convenient means forinsuring correct alignment between cooperating stud and socket membersattached to fabrics to be joined together, so as to avoid pulling orwrinkling of the fabric.

Referring to the drawings and to the preferred form of my inventionselected for illustrative purposes Figure 1 is a side elevation showingdiagrammatically two pieces of fabric intended to be secured together bya separable fastener and a preferred form of apparatus for locating oneof the members relative to the other and relative to its carrying fabricduring the securing operation;

Fig. 2 is a plan View of the parts shown in Fig. 1 after removal of thefabric to which the fastener member initially secured has been efiected;and

Fig. 3 is an enlarged section, partly in elevation, on the line 3-3 ofFig. 2.

Referring to the drawings and to the preferred form of my inventionselected for illustrative purposes, I have shown a stud carrying fabric4: to which a stud 5 has been secured by sewing or any other suitableways.

I have also shown a socket-securing fabric 6 to which the socket is tobe secured, and which it is desired to have lie smooth relative to thestud-carrying fabric 4 after the socket has been secured and when thestud and socket are in engagement.

In the preferred form of my invention selected for illustrativepurposes, where the stud 5 is initially secured to its fabric, I mayutilize means for gripping the socket 7 to the socket-carrying fabric 6,herein typified by the jaws 8 and 9 of a pair of pliers, tweezers or thelike, provided with means for axially aligning the stud with the socketduring the gripping of the socket to its carrying fabric. In thepreferred form of my invention shown, this alignment is effected byproviding one of the a'ws, herein shown as 8, with a stud-receivingrecess 10 on its outer side and with a socket-locating elementon itsinner side, the socket-locating element herein illustrate-d beingtypified by the projection 11, which may as shown reseinble somewhat thestud.

The points ofthe jaws engaging the socket 7 are preferably arranged insuch a way as to leave exposed, when the socket is gripped, a pluralityof sewing holes 12 (as shown in Fig. 2) so that the socket may bepartially secured to its carrying fabric while gripped in the desiredrelation to its carrying fabric.

t is of course desirable that the fabrics 4: and 6 be arranged insubstantially the normal relationship which they are to occupy in use,during the locating operation. During the sewing operation, thestud-securing fabric may be removed or turned back to permit readyaccess to the sewing holes of the socket.

It will be understood that for some purposes it may be desirableinitially to apply the socket member and then to grip the stud member onthe goods, but I prefer initially to attach the stud member, asillustrated.

It will be understood that I use the word fabric in its broader sense toinclude not only woven materials, but any flexible carrying medium, andthat the word pliers is used in its broad sense to include tweezers orother gripping appliances.

While I have shown and described a preferred form of apparatus forlocating, one relative to the other, the cooperating members ofseparable fasteners, and a preferred method of locating such fasteners,it will be understood that major changes involving omission, alteration,substitution and reversal of parts of the apparatus and changes in themethod of practicing the same may be efiected without departing from thescope of my invention, as defined in the following claims.

Claims:

1. An appliance for locating relative to one another the stud and socketmembers of a separable fastener, said appliance pror viding means forlocating engagementwith the member initially secured to itsc'arryingpart and also providing jaws for gripping the second member and itscarrying fabric, whereby the second member is axially aligned with theinitially secured member, said jaws formed to permit sewing of thesecond member to its carrying fabric while the second member and itscarrying fabric are gripped by the jaws.

2. An appliance for locating relative to one another the stud and socketmembers of a separable fastener, said appliance providing means forlocating engagement with the stud initially secured to its carrying partand jaws for gripping the socket member and its carrying "fabric withthe socket member axially aligned with the stud, said jaws formed topermit access to sewing holes adjacent the periphery of the socketmember, whiie the socket member and its carrying fabric are held by thejaws,

3. An appliance for locating relative to one another the stud and socketmembers of a separable fastener, said appliance providing gripping jaws,one carrying on its gripping i'ace means for locating on said jaw asocket member, said jaw providing locating means at its back forengagement with the stud.

l, An appliance for locating relative to one another the stud and socketmembers of a separable fastener, said appliance providing gripping jaws,one carrying on its gripping :iace means for locating on'said jaw asocket .member, said jaw providing locating means at its back forengagement with the projecting partof the stud,

'5. An appliance for locating relative to one another the stud andsocket members or a. separable fastener, said appliance providinggripping jaws, one supplied, on its gripping face with a socket; memberlocate ing element and on its outer face with a stud-locatingdepression.

in testimony whereof, I have signedmy name to this specification.

FREDS. CARR.

